Wednesday, June 2, 2010

ZANU PF's violence

Reports have been made country-wide that Zanu (PF) has stepped up its intimidation tactics ahead of the constitution making process set to kick off next month. This week a high-level undercover delegation was sent into Epworth, a shanty town on the outskirts of Harare, by the Union for Sustainable Democracy.

The findings shocked members. “We were dismayed by repeated accounts of how Zanu (PF) thugs are threatening to mete out violence on anyone who defies their formula for the constitution-making process,” Epworth residents spoke emotionally about how people in Epworth have been ordered by Zanu (PF) thugs to report for political meetings against their will.

The message, they said, has been a very simple one: ‘Shut up and leave the task of responding to questions to those who have been selected to do so’.

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